Edward William Bok (18631930). The Americanization of Edward Bok. 1921.

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Edward expressed surprise that the Wall Street magnate had followed his work.

I have because I always felt you had it in you to make a successful man. But not in that business, he added quickly. You were born for the Street. You would have made a great success there, and that is what I had in mind for you. In the publishing business you will go just so far; in the Street you could have gone as far as you liked. There is room there; there is none in the publishing business. Its not too late now, for that matter, continued the little wizard, fastening his steel eyes on the lad beside him!

And Edward Bok has often speculated whither Jay Gould might have led him. To many a young man, a suggestion from such a source would have seemed the one to heed and follow. But Edward Boks instinct never failed him. He felt that his path lay far apart from that of Jay Gouldand the farther the better!

In 1882 Edward, with a feeling of distinct relief, left the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Company and associated himself with the publishing business in which he had correctly divined that his future lay.

His chief regret on leaving his position was in severing the close relations, almost as of father and son, between Mr. Cary and himself. When Edward was left alone, with the passing away of his father, Clarence Cary had put his sheltering arm around the lonely boy, and with the tremendous encouragement of the phrase that the boy never forgot, I think you have it in you, Edward, to make a successful man, he took him under his wing. It was a turning-point in Edward Boks